Research Catalog
The practice of social research
- Title
- The practice of social research / Earl Babbie.
- Author
- Babbie, Earl R.
- Publication
- Belmont, Calif. : Wadsworth Pub. Co., ©1992.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | H62 .B2 1991 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 1 volume (various pagings) : illustrations; 25 cm
- Subject
- Social sciences > Research
- Social sciences > Methodology
- Social sciences
- Social Sciences
- Research Design
- social sciences
- Social sciences
- Social sciences > Methodology
- Social sciences > Research
- Forschungsmethode
- Sozialwissenschaften
- Sociaal-wetenschappelijk onderzoek
- Methodologie
- Onderzoeksmethoden
- Theorie en praktijk
- Genre/Form
- Einführung.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Holographic Overview -- An Introduction to Inquiry -- Human Inquiry and Science -- Looking for Reality -- The Foundations of Social Science -- Some Dialectics of Social Science -- The Ethics of Social Research -- Paradigms, Theory, and Social Research -- Some Social Science Paradigms -- Elements of Social Theory -- Two Logical Systems Revisited -- Deductive Theory Construction -- Inductive Theory Construction -- The Links Between Theory and Research -- The Idea of Causation in Social Research -- Determinism and Social Science -- Causation in Idiographic and Nomothetic Models of Explanation -- Criteria for Causality -- Necessary and Sufficient Causes -- Errors in Reasoning About Causation -- Linking Measurement and Association -- The Structure of Inquiry -- Research Design -- Three Purposes of Research -- Units of Analysis -- The Time Dimension -- How To Design a Research Project -- The Research Proposal -- Answers to Review Questions and Exercises, Item 2 -- Conceptualization, Operationalization, and Measurement -- Measuring Anything That Exists -- Conceptualization -- Definitions in Descriptive and Explanatory Studies -- Operationalization Choices -- Criteria of Measurement Quality -- Indexes, Scales, and Typologies -- Indexes versus Scales -- Index Construction -- Scale Construction -- Typologies -- The Logic of Sampling -- A Brief History of Sampling -- Nonprobability Sampling -- The Theory and Logic of Probability sampling -- Populations and Sampling Frames -- Types of Sampling Designs -- Multistage Cluster Sampling.
- ISBN
- 0534155766
- 9780534155766
- 0534986390
- 9780534986391
- LCCN
- 91027947
- OCLC
- ocm24173546
- 24173546
- SCSB-2056214
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library